Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to prove it.

It has strong reasoning, but it sometimes answers questions you didn't ask. Formatting and image generation lag behind the text quality. It's a new month, and a new AI version number. It's called ...